Question / Help Looking for OBS Stream setup and help

[KalimariKrusader]

So I've been looking into becoming a little more serious with streaming as of late and decided to jump from using the Nividea Geforce experience to stream to OBS for main programs. Nivideas great but doesn't offer customisation, and so far it's been pretty brutal. I've had issues from window capture and game capture never working or not working properly, to not being about to locate my 64 bit plugin file to mount my CLR files so I can integrate followers and hosting alerts. I've watched countless videos on youtube to try and address problems but I'm pretty lost and frustrated. If any one can point me in the correct direction to go or is simply willing to help me set it up sometime it would be greatly appreciated, until then cheers and thanx for reading.

To Clarify and reiterate the main issues I'm having are.

1. Window capture and game capture both simply give me a black screen or a partial window of the game I am trying to stream. ((Example, When streaming FTL, the steam window stays over FTL even when closed or minamized.))

2. When I went to go drag and drop my CLR files into my 64 Bit OBS plugin folder, A I did not have a 64 bit OBS folder under ~ windows/programfiles ~ and furthermore when I went under the 32 Bit file I still did not have a plugin file (( and yes I checked install plugins when I initially installed OBS))

 

[Harold]

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[NedryOS]

for the CLR browser plugin, I think the problem is that the browser has been integrated into OBS by default and is now called Browser Source. you may have to manually set those up.

For the rest of the issue, usually we ask that you post a log which is the easiest way to find issues that stick out. Here's how to do that:

Please post a link to a clean log file. To make a clean log file, first restart OBS, then start your stream/recording for ~30 seconds and stop it again. When you're done select Help > Log Files > Upload Current Log File. Copy the URL and paste it here.

Just a new guy though, so that may not 100% fix your issue.

 

[KalimariKrusader]

https://gist.github.com/30a7e4c1c7258bec33eede9ccbbc96b4

 

[NedryOS]

Example, When streaming FTL, the steam window stays over FTL even when closed or minamized.

Right click on the Game Capture source and select properties. Scroll down and uncheck "Capture third party overlays"

2. When I went to go drag and drop my CLR file

AFAIK there's no easy solution for porting the clr broswer settings to browswer source, you're stuck just having to add everything manually. What are you using for your alerts overlays? If you're using twitch alerts aka Stream Labs then it's super easy, just check out their videos here: https://www.youtube.com/user/TwitchAlerts. this is actually outdated for the browser source and I didn't realize. Might have to just make one myself.

Black Screen

One possible solution that I frequently see suggested is running OBS as an admin. Try that out and get back to me.

Partial Window

Not 100% on this but you may want to try resetting the transforms for starters. Make your game or window source and direct it at the correct window, then left click on source and press ctrl-r. this resets the transform settings and allows you to change the size of the window by moving any corner or side. Holding shift allows you to alter the aspect ratio, and holding alt allows you to crop.

 14:41:04.880: [ffmpeg muxer: 'simple_file_output'] Writing file 'C:/Users/Jeremy/Videos/2017-03-05 14-41-04.mp4'...
14:41:38.588: [ffmpeg muxer: 'simple_file_output'] Output of file 'C:/Users/Jeremy/Videos/2017-03-05 14-41-04.mp4' stopped

For recording, you definitely want to AVOID MP4! as MP4 is not crash-safe. If the recording fails for any reason, it is simply not recoverable and no amount of begging or whinging will fix it. Record in MKV or FLV, which can be fixed if something happens. When done recording, you can select file -> remux recordings then select the MKV or FLV file. This will generate the MP4 file for you. Additionally, if you want to get quite advanced, MKV supports multiple audio tracks which is useful for later editing and advanced audio setups.

 14:40:10.650:    - source: 'Display Capture' (monitor_capture)

You'll want to avoid display captures at all costs as they tend to be the least efficient of the three types of capture. For capturing a browser such as chrome in a window, you'll have to disable hardware acceleration in its settings.

14:40:10.442: Couldn't find VLC installation, VLC video source disabled

You'll probably want to install VLC as it is currently the best way to get audio/video media into OBS. Plus it's a pretty cool media player too boot.

 

[KalimariKrusader]

Thanx for the help I'll keep plugging away and keep at it. The option for "capture third party overlays wasn't on though" X.x

 

[NedryOS]

If you need better help from better experts, you can always join the irc https://obsproject.com/chat

 

[KalimariKrusader]

Okie dokie some time later...

Running OBS as admin lets me use game capture for FTL, so Cha ching! Nicely done you were spot on.

I was also able to get Streamlabs to work as a "browser source" Not sure what the implications of doing that incorrectly are but I can look into it.

As for recording I'm actually using my Nividea GeForce experience still for recording.

And last but not least I don't actually have a OBS file under Programfiles folder (( 64bit not 32))

Also thanx so much so far it's been super fun learning from you thus far.

 

[NedryOS]

The 32 and 64 both get installed under [C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio-18\] by default. For example, my 64bit obs is at [C:\Program Files (x86)\obs-studio-18\bin\64bit\obs64.exe] are you saying you don't have that at all, because that would be a serious issue. I'm not sure what features nvidia might have over obs, but if you're recording while you stream you're definitely wasting resources. It's much better to do both in one program. Sticking with what you're familiar with is probably better in the short term anyway though if you can afford to.

Glad to be of help! I learned most of this myself just fiddling with things and hanging out around the forum and irc.

 

[KalimariKrusader]

Holy smoke you computer ninja. Under Program Files (x86) I find Obs-plugins, data, bin and the uninstall options, but when I go to the obs- plugin -> 64 and drag and drop the host files It gives me an error message. " The program can't start because OBSApi.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstall the program to fix this problem."

Yeah right now it's all short term fixes I'd like to be able to get everything done under one program which will hapenn eventually but lol probably not in the next week or so.

 

[NedryOS]

what host files are you using? what plugin are you trying to use?

 

[Harold]

DO NOT try to install the CLR plugin into OBS Studio.

IT IS NOT COMPATIBLE!

 

[KalimariKrusader]

"CLR Browser Source Plugin" So since it is not compatible is there work around for using OBS streamlabs?

 

[NedryOS]

yeah that's pretty much where I was going there. There's no reason to use the clr browser plugin since you have browser source. there should be nothing you can do in clr that you can't in the native plugin now. http://prntscr.com/egh0tt <- that's a default source option now.

 

[KalimariKrusader]

Ah okay, lemme do some more testing and streaming.

 

[Harold]

Stremlabs' guides reportedly no longer reference classic anymore.

 

[NedryOS]

the videos I linked earlier do still, I don't know if i made it clear enough that I crossed those out.

 

[KalimariKrusader]

Well anyways I'll keep tweeking and plugging away, thanx again guys it was a pleasure and WAY LESS frusterating then just trial and error for days